Live Webinar March 5th 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Live Webinar March 6th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

A Wall Street Journal article postulates that innovation comes from inside a company through networks—not lone individuals.

The authors offers strategies to cultivate innovation, such as making efforts to break down the walls between company departments, rapidly testing and refining ideas, and figure out whether there are people in the chain of command who are hard to work with.

But for most large organizations, this “formula” for innovation is difficult to implement.

Change, especially innovative change, is often is met with organizational resistance. Conversely, the culture of the organization often expresses collective frustrations with the limitations of business processes and underlying technologies to support business needs.

Doug Jackson, (LinkedIn profile) senior director of the Business Analysis Practice for Robbins Gioia , and Paula Pierce, (Peridona Strategies bio, LinkedIn profile) CEO and principal transformation strategist, Peridona Strategies LLC, conduct an interactive session on integrating business analysis and organizational change management to create an environment for innovation and successful change.

They will examine problems that prevent establishing successful innovation networks and provide an approach using best practices from both disciplines to help organizations harvest and test innovative ideas.

Upon Completion, You will:

1. Identify the root of change resistance in our organizations
2. Identify and capitalize on existing networks
3. Apply BA and OCM best practices to create an environment for innovation.

Click to register for IIBA: Innovation is Not for Lone Rangers

Virtual Training March 17th – 21st, 2014

2 Sessions each day: 1pm-2pm & 4pm-5pm EDT
Duration: 9-10 Hours Credits: 9 PDU Category B PDUs
Fees: $37.00 Live Listening ONLY – $117.00 USD Pass
Hosted by: Gil Broza, (LinkedIn profile @gilbroza)

Your Host – Gil Broza is Principal Agile Mentor & Founder at 3PVantage and author ofThe Human Side of Agile: How to Help Your Team Deliver. Recordings of last years Agile conference “Individuals and Interactions” are still available. (9 Category B PDUs for $87 – $97) An Excellent Value!

Great Early Bird Registration Savings till February 28th 2014

1. Bronze Pass – $27. 00 A $10 Savings
2. Silver Pass – $67.00 A $20.00 Savings
3. Gold Pass – $87.00 A $30.00 Savings

In this unique virtual training hosted by Gil Broza, 10 leading experts and practitioners share the top items they pack for an Agile journey, so you can reach your destination too.

• Do you use Scrum/Agile/Lean/Kanban, but the results leave a lot to be desired?
  • Dive deep into the aspects of Agility that are most often overlooked, misunderstood, or just challenging, and identify the gaps between your current state and possible Agile success.
• Is Agile turning out to be much harder to implement than you thought?
  • Receive practical insights, explanations, and suggestions for some of the challenges you’ve been having.
• Are you looking for more/advanced Agile training, but budgets and schedules don’t make it easy?
  • Get quality Agile education, for a very low price, on your own schedule, and from wherever you are.
• Would you like your organization to become more Agile, but you’re not sure how to communicate this message effectively?
  • Evangelize Agility successfully by talking about the right challenges and needs.

There Is A Lot More To Agile
(And Becoming Agile)
Than Meets The Eye

You know that Agile is more than meetings, artifacts, and process. You know that an Agile journey bears more resemblance to Columbus’s voyage than to a drive around town.

But what is actually involved in becoming Agile?

Which aspects matter a lot more than others? And why is it that most organizations adopt Agile, but only a few seem to get the amazing results that were promised?

In this training, Gil Broza will interview 10 outstanding authors, mentors, executives, innovators, and practitioners. Every one of them has played a leading role in several successful Agile journeys.

You know some of these experts from books, conferences, and webinars. Other guests are accomplished practitioners who seldom speak publicly about their work. All of them are the real deal. And they have accepted Gil’s invitation to this platform to share their knowledge and experience with you. You will receive real, unbiased education.

You’ll be happy you listened to these folks, because you’ll …

• Receive tons of information and advice, which will be useful and applicable no matter where you are on your Agile journey
• Explore both principles and practices – both what successful teams and organizations do and why they succeed
• Understand just how deep/extreme Agile gets, and the corresponding risks and rewards
• Shorten the journey to success with Agile, which is neither short nor easy

If you can’t attend all sessions, or prefer reading to listening, the recordings and transcripts will be available.

This is an amazing opportunity to earn up to 9 Category B PDUs and get a great understanding of proven strategies to enhance your agile techniques and create outstanding success on your agile projects – enhancing your productivity.

The lineup for this event includes:

• Nick Oddson (LinkedInprofile,@noddson)
  • Organizational Support: Actions Speak Louder than Words
• Tricia Broderick (formerly Wilkerson – (LinkedIn profile, @t_broderick)
  • A Team-Friendly Environment: Making Collaboration Possible
• Ted Young(LinkedIn profile, @jitterted)
  • Stop Sprinting, Start Iterating: Embracing Uncertainty and Learning
• Andrew McGlinchey(LinkedIn profile)
  • Whole Product Thinking: More than a Backlog of Features
• Paul Carvalho(LinkedIn profile,@can_test)
  • A Quality Mind-set: Beyond Defects and Automated Tests
  • Watch for Paul’s new book Put Your Mind to the Test to be released soon
• Arlo Belshee (LinkedIn profile, @arlobelshee )
  • Technical Excellence: Changing the Rules of the Development Game
• Johanna Rothman (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman)
  • The Get-to-Done Mentality: Finish What You Start
    
  • Johanna has written many popular books including:
    • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
    • Hiring Geeks That Fit
    • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
    • Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
    • Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People
• Dan Mezick (LinkedIn profile, @DanMezick)
  • Cultural Fit: Can You Handle the Truth?
  • Author Of: The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager
• Guy Nachimson (LinkedIn profile, @guynachimson)
  • Embracing Change: Turning the One Constant from Foe to Friend
• Ken Rubin (LinkedIn profile, @krubinagile)
  • The Agile Principles and Values: Doing What Really Matters
  • Author Of : Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Click to Register
Gain Proven Strategies, Tools, & Insights For Outstanding Success with Agile Webcast
March 17 – 21, 2014

Online Webinar – Recorded Feb 27, 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Organizations launch projects with the assumption that the new or improved solution will provide worthwhile benefits for stakeholders and a suitable return on investment.

Understanding your business requirements can ensure that your teams actually deliver those benefits. Furthermore, keeping user and functional requirements aligned with the business requirements is a key element of successful solution delivery.

Joy will also explore four different scope representation techniques you can apply at any phase of a project.

Topics covered include:

1. Business objectives and success metrics
2. Scope control using business objectives
3. Vision statements
4. Context Diagrams, Ecosystem Maps, Feature Trees, and Event Lists

In this webinar you’ll learn how to define clear business objectives and corresponding success metrics, how to craft a focused vision statement, and how to specify other elements of the business requirements.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

Presenters: Joy Beatty (LinkedIn profile) has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Click To View On YouTube:
Business Requirements Scoping Techniques

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar Feb 25th 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Does everyone understand what Business Analysts do for a living? Wouldn’t it be nice if the rest of the organization did?

This session will offer advice, tips and ideas on how to build up an awareness of the BA or PM cultures within your company. Selling to the CIO or CEO. Promoting the role to the staff you work with.

Creating an internal awareness of the value a PM or BA can bring to any project.

Dave will discuss the use of information sessions, internal webinars, ‘lunch & learns’, a community of practice, public meetings and more. Attendees are encouraged to come with their own stories of marketing success or failures.

Learning Points:

1. Tools for internal marketing
2. Ideas for better internal communications
3. Thoughts on Centres of Excellence or PMOs or BAOs

Presenter: David Barrett (LinkedIn profile) is a Founding Member IIBA and Professional Speaker.He is also the Project Director for the Centres of Excellence in Project Management and Business Analysis at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University, the co-editor of ProjectTimes.com and BATimes.com.

Click to register for IIBA: They Don’t Get Us!! Marketing the BA Role for Growth and Success

Live Webinar Feb 19th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

• Are you a Business Analyst trying to find your role in an Agile project?
• Are you looking for ways to ramp up your Agile team’s productivity?

There are a lot of misconceptions about Business Analysis in an Agile development environment, and sometimes Business Analysts find it hard to adapt to the short iterations, just-in-time planning and minimalist documentation that characterizes Agile development.

This webinar is a frank discussion about what Agile demands from a Business Analyst and how Business Analysts can succeed and ensure their team succeeds.

Learning Objectives:

1. Dispel common myths about Agile, including the belief that Business Analysts aren’t welcome in Agile
2. Explain why every development team needs excellent business analysis to be successful
3. Guide analysts in how to deliver the most value in Agile settings

Click to register for Three Ways Business Analysts Enable Agile Success